Water-circulating device for radiators



Aug. 14, 1923.

P. A. SCHIMMING' WATER CIRCULATING DEVICE FOR RADIATORS Filed July 14;

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Application filed J'uly 14, 1922. Serial No. svaecs.

To aZZ whom it may concern: a length as to carry it to a plane very close Be it known that 1, PAUL A. Serrlrrsrme, to but slightly below that or the surface of a citizen of the United States of America, the water in the radiator, so that while the residing at Hope, in the county of Dickininner or discharge end of the extension is son nd State f Kansas, have invented new sealed or is submerged in the liquid conan-d useful Improvements in WVater-Circw' tents of the upper compartment of the ralating Devices for Radiators, of which the diator, it is so close to the surface of said following is a specification. water as not to be materiall effected by The object of the invention is to provide .the weight of the water and therefore the 10 means for producing a more effective circuresistance offered to the circulation or" the lation of the water between the water jacket water from the motor jacket to the radiator and radiator of motor-driven vehicles and to is minimizedor is rendered practically negthis end means is provided for increasing lipible to increase the rapidity of thecircuthe head of hot water and correspondingly lation and maintain the water in the system 15 increasing the head of cold water in the at alower temperature than is possible unjacket to increase the rapidity of circulation der the present conditions. between it and the radiator above what: is in the form of the device which is shown ordinarily the case, thus maintainingthe in Fig. 2, as adapted for use in connection water in the circulatory system as 'awhole with a pleasure car, the return water pipe 3 at a lower temperature for the more eifecor connection 15 is engaged with a thimble ive operation of the engine. 16 forming a part of the radiator 17, and With this object in view the invention the attachment 17 consists of a short length consists in a construction and combination of tubing adapted to be inserted into said of parts of which a preferred embodiment thimble to project upwardly into the upper 25 is shown in the accompanying drawings, Water compartment 18 of the radiator to a wherein point but slightly below the plane of the Figure 1 is a sectional view of a portion surface of the water in said compartment, of a motor vehicle including the radiator as shown, for the purposes hereinbeiore inand the upper water connection between the dicated. The extension is held in place by 30 same and themotor jacket, to which is apexpanding the same in the thimblc or by any plied a device embodying the invention, the equivalent agency. i'ormof the illustrated device being espe- Having described the invention, what is cially adapted for Fordson tractors. claimed as new and useful is Figure 2 is a similar view of the device The combination with the radiator and applied to the radiator of a car of the Ford water jacket or" a motor vehicle engine, the type. former being provided with an upper rear- Figures is a detail perspective view of wardly extending'water compartment and the return pipe extension constituting the the latter being provided with a return pipe .essential element of the invention. whose upper end is overhung by said water The device consists'essentially of a return compartment, of return pipe extension pipe extension 10 having suitable means protruding through the lower wall of the adapted to the particular radiator structure upper water compartment and terminall r V in connection with which it may be used for connected with the return pipe oil? the radiaholding the same in place as a continuator, the said extension terminating adjacent tion of the upper or return water conductor to the normal plane of the surface of the 11 to the radiator 12 and which in thetype water in the upper compartment, and means of radiator shown in Figure 1 is provided for securing said extension respectively to with an upper water compartment 13. In the wall of said water compartment and to this construction the extension 10 isprothe extremity of the return pipe. 50 vided with a flange 14 adapted to be en- In testimony'whereof he ai'lixes his signagaged between the upper or cap section 13 ture. and the lower or body section 13 of the ra- 1 diator casing, and said extension is of such PAUL A. SCHTMMING. 

